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一对2岁的头部连体双胞胎在圣路易斯一家儿童医院接受复杂手术后成功分离，如今首次得以面对面相见。
这对名为希亚卜和伍布托的女孩出生于埃塞俄比亚，患有极其罕见的颅部连体畸形，两人头部反向连接在一起。据美国国家医学图书馆的数据，这种情况在所有连体双胞胎病例中占比不到6%，大约每250万活产婴儿中才会出现一例。
近两年来，这对女孩只能听到彼此的声音，却无法看到对方的脸。SSM健康圣路易斯红衣主教格伦农儿童医院在一份新闻稿中表示，让她们保持连体状态会对她们的长期健康构成重大风险。
这对双胞胎于2025年从埃塞俄比亚前往密苏里州。在这家医院，由近30名医学专家组成的团队花费了近一年时间，规划这场复杂且高风险的分离手术。
![双胞胎分离手术前后对比。SSM健康圣路易斯红衣主教格伦农儿童医院 / CBS新闻]
女孩的父母未能获得从埃塞俄比亚赴美旅行的签证，因此留在了祖国，双胞胎由一名监护人陪同前来。医院表示，此次行动得到了全球儿科医疗服务提供者和慈善组织网络的支持。
医院官员于周三宣布手术成功。医院称，手术于2月进行，耗时25小时，外科医生必须小心翼翼地分离两人共用的血管。
手术团队负责人乔安娜·坎普医生是美国首位开展此类手术的女性神经外科医生。她表示，尽管她们的大脑“大部分已经分离”，但医生必须提前规划处理几处“融合在一起的小区域”。手术结束时，坎普说，看到双胞胎被分开，“甚至在手术室里相距几英尺远”，那种感觉“相当不可思议”。
“我想我们所有人都有片刻的停顿，”坎普说道。
医院表示，这对女孩已经在手术治疗过程中达到了“一个重要里程碑”——伍布托最近成功完成了颅骨修补的颅骨成形术，希亚卜也将在今年晚些时候接受类似手术。
根据医院的新闻稿，双胞胎目前正在密苏里州马里兰高地的兰肯·乔丹儿科过渡医院接受护理和康复治疗。
SSM健康圣路易斯红衣主教格伦农儿童医院告诉CBS新闻，他们希望能在不久的将来送这对女孩回到埃塞俄比亚的家人身边。
Twins conjoined at the head are separated in 25-hour surgery at St. Louis hospital
2026-09-18 12:32 PM EDT / CBS News
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Ian Lee
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A pair of 2-year-old conjoined twins are seeing each other face to face for the first time after being successfully separated during a complex medical procedure at a St. Louis children’s hospital.
The girls, Hiyab and Wuhbto, were born in Ethiopia with an extremely rare condition called craniopagus, where they were joined at the head facing in opposite directions. This occurs in less than 6% of all conjoined twins cases, according to the National Library of Medicine — only about once in every 2.5 million live births.
For nearly two years, the girls could hear each other’s voices but could not see each other’s faces. Leaving them conjoined posed significant risks to their long-term health, SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital said in a news release.
The twins traveled from Ethiopia to Missouri in 2025. At the hospital, a team of nearly 30 medical specialists spent almost a year planning a complicated, high-stakes operation to separate them.
The twins before and after their separation surgery. SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital / CBS News
The girls’ parents were not able to get visas to travel from Ethiopia, so they remained in their home country and the girls traveled with a guardian. The hospital said the efforts were supported by a global network of pediatric providers and charity organizations.
Hospital officials announced the successful outcome on Wednesday. The surgery itself, conducted in February, took 25 hours, the hospital said. Surgeons had to delicately separate their shared blood vessels.
Dr. Joanna Kemp, the leader of the surgical team and the first female neurosurgeon in the United States to perform this surgery, said that while their brains “were mostly separate,” doctors had to plan for a few “small areas that were fused” together. At the end of the operation, Kemp said it was “quite wild” to see the girls separated, “even a few feet apart in that operating room.”
“I think all of us kinda had this moment of pause,” Kemp said.
The hospital says the girls have reached a “major milestone in their surgical journey” — Wuhbto recently had a successful cranioplasty to complete the repair of her skull, and a similar operation will be performed on Hiyab later this fall.
The twins are continuing to receive care and rehabilitation at Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital, in Maryland Heights, Missouri, according to the hospital news release.
SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital told CBS News it hopes to send the girls home to their family in Ethiopia in the near future.
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